The top-seeded Brownstown Junior High seventh-grade girls basketball team last Tuesday won a regional championship by defeating No. 3 Altamont, 32-22, at the Class 7-2A regional in Beecher City. Brownstown played Oblong at the Albion sectional on Wednesday night.

South Central senior Emily Atwood will be a rival to a former teammate next season.

By signing a letter of intent to play volleyball for John A. Logan Community College last Tuesday, Atwood will be joining the Great Rivers Athletic Conference next fall, which also includes Lake Land Community College, the chosen school of fellow SCHS senior Kinzie Neilson.

The long-time friends won't let that get in the way of their friendship, however, and South Central coach Mary Brimberry said that Atwood should be successful at the college level.

FARINA – The seniors stepped up to get the lead, and the young buck made the plays to put the game away for St. Elmo in double-overtime on Tuesday.

Seniors Blaine Scholes and Ben Sperry combined to make 4-of-5 free throws in the first 30 seconds of the second overtime period, and sophomore Levi Maxey then recorded a 3-pointer, steal and layup in a span of 14 seconds to bump St. Elmo’s lead to seven during a 53-50 season-opening win on Tuesday.

In years past, the Vanderbilt University bowling team has dominated the Hawk Classic held in Millsboro, Del.

This year was no different. Vandalia grad Jessica Earnest, a Vanderbilt bowler, bowled in four games of the tournament, including the final head-to-head matchup against Fairleigh- Dickinson University. Vanderbilt won convincingly, earning a 4-2 victory.

Santa Claus will be welcomed into Vandalia this Saturday as he will participate in the annual Vandalia Rotary Christmas Parade.

The parade begins at 10 a.m. at the Fayette County Courthouse parking lot and travels east on Gallatin Street to Fourth Street, where it turns south and disbands at the First National Bank parking lot.

Santa, however, will continue to Lincoln Park, where he will be available to talk with children in the park’s gazebo from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.